Bug 57752 - Can't edit an existing firewall configuration
Summary: Can't edit an existing firewall configuration
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: firewall-config
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-12-20 23:10 UTC by Louis Berube
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-12-20 23:10:26 UTC
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Description Louis Berube 2001-12-20 23:10:21 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686)

Description of problem:
I cannot find a way to use this tool to edit a firewall configuration that
already exists in /etc/sysconfig/ipchains. (Since the Help dialog says that
it stores its results into that file, I assume that it should be able to
load the contents for editing). The tool starts with an empty set of rules,
whether or not there is a file name argument given when starting the tool.
No "File" button, no change when clicking the "Default" button, no
information in the Help dialog, nada.

I have verified that the file does exist, and has configuration
information. The existing contents were generated (I believe) when I
installed the system.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start with a system with firewall information configured from system
installation.
2.Invoke firewall-config, with or without an argument
/etc/sysconfig/ipchains.

	

Actual Results:  The dialog window comes up with no existing rules shown.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2002-01-08 14:25:37 UTC
it does store the values in /etc/sysconfig/ipchains, but do to a subset of 
commands the GUI version is read/written to/from /etc/sysconfig/firewall.

For 8.0 there will be a ipchains converter and an iptables config tool which 
will give you full editing of /etc/sysconfig/iptables...

Sorry... maybe gnome-lokkit is what you are looking for?



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